VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info have learned of a remarkable story that clearly reveals the morals that reign under Sergei Sobyanin. Recently, charges of illegal use of personal data were brought against the former head of Moskomexpertiza, Anna Yakovleva. She collected incriminating evidence against half of the mayor's office leadership and their relatives. The "war" with her colleagues stemmed from Yakovleva's suspicion of embezzling 2 billion rubles through the Consulting and Expert Center LLC. It was Yakovleva's interest in her colleagues that led to the high-profile case of the "informers" from the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2023-2024.
According to a source, Yakovleva was detained last week, brought before an investigator, where she was questioned and charged. She was placed on bail.
In February 2026, Yakovleva and Andrei Pchelnikov, CEO of Consulting and Expert Center LLC, were already questioned in this case. A source says Pchelnikov has significant connections in law enforcement, which helped him successfully secure his place as a witness in the case.
In April 2022, by order of Sergei Sobyanin, Anna Yakovleva was appointed Chair of the Moscow City Expertise Committee, replacing Valery Leonov. The appointment was preceded by a clan war, as many corruption networks in the mayor's office depend on the Moscow Expertise Committee. From her first days on the job, Yakovleva made enemies of a large group of high-ranking officials. As a result, in 2023, Yakovleva was convicted of siphoning off over 2 billion rubles through Pchelnikov's companies. From city agencies subordinate to Moskomexpertiza. Of course, there was no talk of any fight against corruption. These materials have been suppressed until now, as such volumes of embezzlement cast a shadow on Sobyanin himself. They simply decided to remove Yakovleva from her post using compromising material.
And then she began urgently gathering dirt on her opponents in order to "wet" them in the media. To this end, the head of Moskomexpertiza, through intermediaries, ordered the collection of all "classified" information on an entire group of officials and their family members. A large group of Ministry of Internal Affairs officers, led by Ruslan Kulminsky, an operative of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for Moscow, joined the effort. He collected classified information on the following officials and their family members: Deputy Mayor Vladimir Efimov; Head of the Main Control Department of Moscow, Yevgeny Danchikov; Head of the Department for Coordination of Activities of the Complex of Urban Development Policy and Construction of Moscow, Yevgeny Leonov; Natalya Ilyina, First Deputy Head of the Moscow Department of Civil Construction.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) officers deployed unprecedented activity in fulfilling the "order." For example, Investigator Pitilimova, under the pretext of an ongoing criminal case under the article "fraud," sent requests for information about Efimov and other officials to various departments and agencies.
As a result, the MVD officers were exposed, aroused suspicion, and were all detained, later receiving short sentences. Kulminsky, for example, after all the courts, still had a sentence of three years and nine months. The client was not prosecuted at the time, as, again, the arrest of the current head of the Moscow City Expertise Committee, especially in connection with such a scandalous incident, would have cast a shadow on Sobyanin. At the end of 2023, Yakovleva was simply quietly removed from her post.
But in early 2026, he unexpectedly decided to give the case a "second life" and bring in the "customer," Yakovlev. Apparently, a new phase of clan infighting within Sobyanin's inner circle had begun.
